Legal document: ENA 4011.42
Legal document ENA 4011.42Tags
Description
Verso: Legal document: agreement with the Qodesh. Dating: ca. 1160. An agreement is concluded between a certain Ṣubḥ and his wife, and the qodesh, represented by Abū Naṣr Yeshaʿyahu ha-Levi, the general administrator of the estates of the qodesh. Since the couple own nine qarārīṭ (=3/8) of the house of which the qodesh owns the rest, the repairs needed in the house could not be made without their collaboration. As a pledge for their part of the cost, they temporarily waive the ownership rights over their part as long as Yeshaʿyahu ha-Levi wants it. They also will accept the sum of the expenditures stated by him without question. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 292 #62)
Edition: Gil, Moshe
Translation: Gil, Moshe (in English)
ENA 4011.42 1
Transcription
Moshe Gil, Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations from the Cairo Geniza (Leiden: Brill, 1976).Translation
Moshe Gil, Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations from the Cairo Geniza (Leiden: Brill, 1976).ENA 4011.42 2
- חצר צבח וזוגתה ואקנו מנהם מעא אנהם
- רפעו ידהם ען אלתסעה קראריט אלדי
- פי אלדאר אלמערופה בדאר אלצבאג
- שרכה אלעניים והי בקצר אלשמע
- בזקאק אלחראני ואנהם גמיעא
- לא יביעא ולא יהבא ולא יאגרא
- ולא יסכנא ולא יקבצא שי מן
- אלאגרה [[מא דאם]] //אלי אן יסתופי רבינו ישעיהו גמיע//
- מא יקולה אנה [[כרג ]] אלדי להם והו אלתסעה
- חצר צבח וזוגתה גמיעא ואקנו
- מנהמא גמיעא מעא אן קד
- ארתצו באן יתולא להם אלשיך אלאגל
- בונצר רבינו ישעיהו מתולי רבע
- אלעניים עמארה אלרבע ותמן מן אלדאר
- אלדי להם באלפסטאט בקצר אלשמע בזקאק
- אלחראני //אלמערופה בדאר בן אלצבאג// ואנהם קד אמנוה גמיעא
- פי מא יקול אנה אנפקה על[י] אל
- עמארה אלמדכורה כשני עדים
- כשרים נאמנים וסווגו לה כל מא
- יראה מן דלך ואנהמא גמיעא
Verso
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There were present (in court) Ṣubḥ and his wife and it was legally acquired from both of them that
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they relinquish any claim to the 9 qīrāṭs of
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the compound known as Dār al-Ṣabbāgh,
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Shirkat al-ʿAniyīm, which is in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ
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in the lane of al-Ḥarrānī. The two of them will in no way
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sell, or donate, or rent it,
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or bring in tenants, or collect any
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rent, until our Master Isaiah has received the full acquittal
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of what he will say .. of theirs, namely those 9 (qīrāṭs)
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There were present Ṣubḥ and his wife and it was legally acquired
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from both of them together that they
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(12-14) accepted that the Honorable al-Shaykh (A)bū Naṣr, our Master Isaiah, the administrator of the Estate of the Poor, should handle for them the repairs of 1⁄4 + 1/8 of the compound
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owned by them in Fustat, in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ, in the lane
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of al-Ḥarrānī, known as Dār b. al-Ṣabbāgh. Also, that they will fully trust him
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regarding (the sum) which, he will say, was spent for
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(18-19) the said repairs, just as (one would trust) two able and trustworthy witnesses. They allowed him (to do) whatever he
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would find necessary regarding this (matter). Both of them together….